Military Personnel Find Relief from More Chiropractic Care Available in the VA
The spines of our veterans need beneficial care. Veterans need access to chiropractic care - just like their fellow Murfreesboro chiropractic spine pain patients - and now can get it. Most Chiropractic Clinic is the Murfreesboro back pain specialty center for spine pain, back pain, neck pain, arm pain and leg pain relief for Murfreesboro veterans and Murfreesboro back pain patients. Most Chiropractic Clinic offers relieving Murfreesboro chiropractic care to any Murfreesboro back pain patients seeking back pain relief!
WHAT HAPPENS TO THEIR SPINES?
Data from the Veterans’ Administration (VA), “diseases of the musculoskeletal system/connective system” like back pain are the chief issues for veterans returning from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. (1) To what is it credited? Most of us would assume it is due to carrying heavy backpacks and weapons. (2) One study points out that back pain is found more in military construction and law enforcement personnel. (3) Reason for back pain for non-military folks like Murfreesboro residents apply to military, too, like injury, posture, daily activity, weight, stress, genetic defects, etc.
RELIEF FOR A VETERAN
One military officer with a 20-year history of mechanical back pain secondary to an injury incurred while on active military duty experienced intermittent radiation of numbness and tingling involving the right lower extremity distal to the knee. Chiropractic care provided him a 25% reduction in low back pain severity and a 22% decrease in perceived disability. The program of conservative, chiropractic management involved 10 treatments of lumbar flexion/distraction and activity modification in 8 weeks. Even though he’d had this pain for some time, he realized relief. (4) After 20 years, such reductions in pain and disability would clearly be welcomed by Murfreesboro back pain sufferers, too.
BENEFICIAL CHIROPRACTIC CARE FOR VETERANS’ SPINES INSTEAD OF OPIOIDS
1999 marked the year of the US law authorizing the VA to provide chiropractic care via private sector chiropractors. (5) From 2004 (the year the law was voted for that chiropractic was to be available the VA system) to 2015, annual chiropractic VA patients increased by 821%, chiropractic visits by 694%, number of clinics by 9%, chiropractic employees by 21%. (5) Currently, 70 VA facilities have chiropractors on staff. (1) Nearly 100 VA facilities still provide little to no availability. (2) If a VA facility does not have a chiropractor(s) on staff, veterans (if they ask) are allowed to obtain a referral to a local chiropractor like yours at Most Chiropractic Clinic for care. Many don’t know about this benefit or that they can be helped with chiropractic care. Chiropractic as a profession and your Murfreesboro chiropractic continue to educate the public about how it can help musculoskeletal pain, back pain, sciatica, neck pain and arm radiculopathy, how it can help with pain management. Today, many veterans - like many others in the general population - are struggling with prescription opioid pain drugs. (6) The opioid epidemic is everywhere; chiropractic care may assist in reducing its effects for military veterans as it does for general population Murfreesboro pain patients.
ACCESS TO CHIROPRACTIC EXPANDS IN THE U.S.
Chiropractic researchers try to make sure that military personnel have access to chiropractic care. One group created an integrated care pathway for doctors of chiropractic, primary care providers, and mental health professionals who manage veterans with low back pain, with or without mental health comorbidity, within Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care facilities. (7) Lately, the US House endorsed expansion of chiropractic services in the VA. Availability is to grow to at least two medical centers/clinics in each Veterans Integrated Service Network by December 31, 2019, and be at 50% of them by December 31, 2021. (1) Most Chiropractic Clinic appreciates the confidence in chiropractic care this action demonstrates.
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Listen to this PODCAST from The Back Doctors’ Podcast about a military veteran with multiple spinal issues whose local chiropractor helped him find relief.
Schedule a Murfreesboro chiropractic appointment for yourself or a loved one – military veteran or not. Most Chiropractic Clinic is well prepared to help ease the musculoskeletal spine pain and back pain conditions of all sorts felt by military personnel and military veterans with chiropractic care.
